PoemTalk Podcast #93, discussing Helen Adam's "Cheerless Junkie's Song," October 20, 2015
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.
San Francisco's Burning (1963)
A lyric play written by Helen and Pat Adam, and performed by the Audio-Experimental Theatre on WBAI, July
17, 1977. Produced by Charles Ruas.
Part I
- Section 1 (12:10): MP3
- Section 2 (9:59): MP3
- Section 3 (7:17): MP3
- Section 4 (13:39): MP3
- Section 5 (8:08): MP3
- Section 6 (8:18): MP3
- Section 7 (8:48): MP3
Part II
- Section 1 (9:00): MP3
- Section 2 (8:21): MP3
- Section 3 (11:48): MP3
- Section 4 (6:59): MP3
- Section 5 (7:59): MP3
- Section 6 (9:01): MP3
- Section 7 (8:48): MP3
- Section 8 (9:23): MP3
Part III
- Section 1 (8:26): MP3
- Section 2 (7:42): MP3
- Section 3 (6:27): MP3
- Section 4 (9:12): MP3
Cast
- Helen Adam (reading Miss Mackie Rhodus and Anubis)
- Pat Adam (reading Susan Pettigrew)
- Marilyn Hacker (reading the Countess of Barth Malone)
- Robert Hershon (reading Spangler Jack)
- Barbara Wise (reading the Lovely Mrs. Valentine)
- Peter Fleur
- William Packard
- Martin L.H. Rhymert
- Daniel Haberman
- William Trapp
- Arthur Williams
- Rob Noah Wynne
Adapted for Radio by Helen Adam, with musical assistance by Rob Noah Wynne
Technical direction by Manoli Weatherow and David Rapkin
Produced by Charles Ruas for WBAI
The complete libretto to San Francisco's Burning was published by Hanging Loose Press in 1985.
Read Kristin Prevallet's Notes on
San Francisco's Burning from A Helen Adam Reader (2007)
- Ballad of the Hawthorn Bower (4:20): MP3
- introduction (1:03): MP3
- on her childhood in Scotland (8:39): MP3
- on moving to San Francisco, "San Francisco's Burning," and writing ballads aloud (6:28): MP3
- In and Out of the Horn-Beam Maze (5:38): MP3
- on her favorite painters (2:17): MP3
- on Allen Ginsberg, Jack Spicer, Open Space, and the atmosphere of San Francisco (4:11): MP3
- At the Window (1:12): MP3
- on gothic romances, magic, and the relationship between love and death (5:44): MP3
- on Henry VIII's wives and ruthlessness (2:24): MP3
- The Fair Young Wife (6:08): MP3
- on madness, the Elizabethan era, and reincarnation (3:02): MP3
- on Yeats, George MacDonald, and Robert Duncan (6:55): MP3
- A Walk in the Wind (1:42): MP3
complete recording (1:01:12): MP3
"Cheerless Junkie's Song" on YouTube
© 2007 by Helen and Pat Adam. These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and
educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the authors. Used with permission of the authors.
Distributed by PennSound.
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